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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, JULY 3, 1942 Kathleen Norris Says: Our .Households Face Rough Weather Bell Syndicate—WNU Features. Impress the children so forcefully with the throttling power of debt that the lesson trill last them the rest of their lives, in peace as well as in war. By KATHLEEN NORRIS N THE old clipper days it was part of a captain’s job to know when a storm was coming. He watched the sky, and when there was trouble ahead he sent every man he could spare up into the yards to shorten the sails. Perhaps the ship had been sailing along swiftly in fair weather. Perhaps there hadn’t been a cloud in the sky as she had spread her white wings to the kiss of the winds. But squalls come up swiftly, and smart seamen deal with them in stantly. Long before rough gales reach them they have every bit of canvas roped and tied, and the ship is ready to dive head on into the waves and slip unobstructed through the seas. Your household and mine are facing rough weather. Of America’s more than 40 million homes all ex cept a few are going to feel the strain of the coming months— months so vital in the history of the world and of civilization that, whatever our personal losses or fears, we must feel ourselves priv ileged to live in them. We are going to win the war, whether it takes us five months or five years, or fifteen. Something to Hope For. It may be that this coming autumn will see the tide turned, will assure us the worst is over, and the only dragging months of settle ment and readjustment are ahead. Some of the best-informed men in America and England think that this might be so. Something to hope for, anyway. But whether the road to peace is long or short it is for you and me now to shorten sail. And just as those old sea captains used to send their very smallest boys up into the rigging, so begin with the smallest members of the family, and take them into your confidence. Work out a plan that means paying up every debt you owe to the very last cent. Make a graph of these debts, if yon like, and post it in the living room. Slowly obliterate the red lines, as dentist, installment collec tor, insurance and grocer get their due. Impress the children so force fully with the throttling power of debt that the lesson will last them the rest of their lives, in peace as well as war times. If your argument is: “We barely get along now; it is utterly impos sible for us to do any better,” some thing is wrong in your mind. It is always possible to do better. In every department of your house keeping there is leakage, small in itself, but adding up into formid able waste. Wasted bread and but ter on small plates; wasted lights burning unneeded; wasted oven heat, wasted hot water, wasted tele phoning, wasteful habits of helping oneself to just a little too much gravy, potato, biscuits, bacon, sliced peaches. Wasteful Thinking. Worst and most extravagant of all is the wasteful thinking. Thinking that you and yours must have cer tain things and must live in a cer tain way. Dad likes pure olive oil in salads, so none of the cheaper vegetable oils will do. There is no usable substitute for pure butter in cake. The front hall and the drawing-room must be lighted at five o’clock every evening. Tele grams must be sent on all occa- IN THE RED To those who never quite man age to make the proverbial ends meet; who always feel that little extravagances are necessary “just this once”; who are more than willing to pay the doctor, the grocer, the tax collector—next time; to these and all others like them, who are never completely on the credit side of the ledger, Kathleen Norris offers a solemn warning that the peace that comes after this war will bring greater freedom, greater happi ness, greater opportunity only to those whose lives are not clouded by the knowledge that, although they know where the next meal is coming from, they will prob ably not be able to pay for it. sions. Olives and celery must be upon the table whenever there is company. Friends in the hospital must have flowers. These are the niceties and lux uries of living; we have accustomed ourselves to them, and it is hard to do without them. It is much more pleasant to have a nice girl in a cap and apron serving dinner, and to be able to ignore the question of dishwashing and clearing after ward, than to serve things up in a scramble, with Molly running in and out of the pantry setting the ta ble, and Mother cooking. But none of these things is as valuable as a spirit of peace. There is no quicker way to banish fear and doubt than to get the home situ ation well in hand and to face the future solvent and unafraid. Solvency Is Freedom. This is a war for freedom and independence. Solvency is freedom; being out of debt is independence. It won’t help you much, when the world is free, and when we are all rejoicing in the dawn*of a new day, to remernbe: that during the war you refused to adapt yourself, you stumbled right on into deeper and deeper debt and that, though Amer ica has won, you have lost. A Nashville woman writes me this: “Last year we had three sons at home, two working and contributing to expenses, one in school. Now two of them are drafted, the third past 18 and therefore eligible to the draft, and my husband recently stricken with a heart illness that will mend slowly, perhaps taking months to cure. This means that from an income of $67 a week, plus $10 each from the boys—more than $350 a month in all—I am reduced to whatever Bud can earn, and even that may presently disappear. “But my people have always been soldiers and pioneers, and I am proud to follow in their footsteps. I rented my home and moved into a three-room apartment that I get for nothing, because I am caretaker. Not a janitress, for there is a good janitor, but I am expected to hire elevator boys, answer complaints, send for plumbers when necessary, advertise empty apartments, sign leases and so on. “I advertised that a woman of 46, whose sons were called to the service, would like to be given a trial in any capacity that assured her of a home, and had five an swers, of which this job was my choice. Bud gets $40 a week and gives half to me for board; I save every cent of this, as the $75 I get for my home more than pays our expenses. These Babecued Hamburgers Are Appetite-Tempting! (See Recipes Below.) Outdoor Fun The delicious aroma of meat cook ing over a crackling fire, toasted buns, and freshly roasted com or potatoes in the embers—all these make for plenty of summer fun. Toss together your outdoor cooking equip ment, bright, gay colored cloths, napkins, and gather some wood for your picnic. Plain to have lots of hearty, nourishing food to give your picknickers so they will have plenty of that up- and-at-them spirit. Crunchy green salads packed in jelly glasses or paper containers, steaming hot coffee, baked beans, or macaroni and cheese, and barbe cued meat. Dispel the chilliness of cool nights with your picnic out doors. Hamburgers are old favorites, but you can make them extra delicious by drizzling a tasty barbecue sauce over them while they cook. 'Barbecued Hamburgers. (Serves 8) 2 pounds ground beef VA teaspoons salt Pepper to taste 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 tablespoon flour 1 teaspoon chili powder 2 teaspoons brown sugar 2 teaspoons salt H teaspoon pepper 1 medium-sized onion, ehopped VA tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 'A vup catsup 1 tablespoon hot water Have any of the thriftier cuts of beef ground—such as chuck, flank, shank, neck, or heel of round. If meat is quite lean, ask your butcher to grind in some suet. Mix meat thoroughly with salt and pep per. Cook on a greased griddle- grill with thick slices of onion. Mix rest of ingredients well and drizzle over hamburgers as they cook. This sauce is also excellent over frankfurters which have been pricked with a fork. To make a new kind of “cheese burger,” add % cup grated cheese to each pound of hamburger, mixing lightly. Hamburger Puffs. (Serves 8) 2 pounds chuck steak, ground 2 cups grated raw potato 4 tablespoons grated onion 2 teaspoons salt Vi teaspoon pepper Vt peeled clove of garlic, minced 4 tablespoons milk 4 tablespoons fat Combine all ingredients except fat. Form into 16 patties. Cook in fat on a greased grill or skillet over medium heat until brown on both Barbecue Supper 'Barbecued Hamburgers Weinies Toasted Buns Mustard Chili Sauce Relish 'Roast Coni or 'Roast Potatoes Fresh Fruit or Berries or 'Marshmallow Dessert Coffee or Honey Lemonade 'Recipe Given Lynn Says: For best results in outdoor cooking use a small fire. Be sure you have a deep bed of coals be fore you start broiling or frying your food. To start the fire, use a soft quick burning wood like pine, spruce, hemlock, laurel, poplar, or aspen. For a good bed of coals, use a hard wood such as maple, oak, ash, beech, birch, hickory, or any available hard wood in your community. Seasoned wood which has not lain on the ground long enough to become wet or rotted, but long enough to dry out, is best for fires. Wood without bark makes the best kind of fire, as bark will cause a fire to smoulder. To start a fire more easily, use split wood, as it burns more easily than round logs. You won’t be a sissy if you kneel when using a hand axe for chopping or splitting wood. If you use seasoned wood, it can easily be broken into convenient chunks for the fire. sides and done. About 5 or 8 min utes on each side is enough. 'Roast Corn. Have a hot fire and let it burr down until there is a good pile of red embers. Soak the ears of corn in their husks un til good and wet and lay them, still in the husks, in the hot ashes. Bake for 30 min utes or until com is tender. Turn the ears occasion ally. 'Roast Potatoes. Bury potatoes in hot ashes and roast as you do the corn, until thej are tender. They take longer t< roast than the corn. Serve with lots of butter, salt, and pepper. 'Marshmallow Dessert. (Serves 6) Small bars of plain chocolate 12 graham crackers 12 marshmallows Toast 2 marshmallows over the coals to a crisp, gooey state, and then put them inside a graham cracker and chocolate bar sandwich. The heat of the marshmallow be tween the halves of chocolate bar will melt the chocolate just enough, and the graham crackers on the outside are nice to hold. Do you like to go primitive and roast meat over a forked stick or long-handled fork? Then, you’ll like: Kabobs. For each person, allow Va pound round steak, % of a medium-sized onion, and a few slices of bacon. Cut the meat in 1-inch squares, cut the onion lengthwise, from top to bottom. Cut the slices of bacon into thirds. Place beef, onion, and bacon on a fork or stick, alternate ly, and broil over coals until done. A salad that is both health- crammed and delicious for a picnic is this one made with plenty of vege tables and cottage cheese: Vitamin Salad. (Serves 6) 1 cap celery, diced 2 caps cottage cheese *A green pepper, diced 1 cup carrots, shredded (cooked) 2 caps cabbage, shredded fine V6 cup mayonnaise Salt Toss together all ingredients and serve on crisp lettuce leaves. A cookie treat to take with you on your picnic is this sugar-saving one: Fruit Treats. (Makes 12 Treats) 2 caps sifted, enriched flour 3 tablespoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 to 4 tablespoons shortening Vi cup milk (about) 1 tablespoon honey or corn syrup 2 eggs 12 cooked apricots or prunes Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Cut in shortening. Beat 1 whole egg and 1 egg yolk, reserving white for tops. Add milk and honey to beaten eggs and add flour to mix ture. Stir in only enough to hold flour together. Turn on lightly floured board and knead together Vi minute. Roll Vi inch thick, cut with doughnut cutter. Place on baking sheet and place an apricot or prune in the “hole” on each one. Brush with egg white and sprinkle biscuits with cinnamon sugar. Bake in a moderately hot oven 12 to 15 min utes. Cinnamon sugar: Mix 3 table spoons sugar with Vi teaspoon cin namon. Why get hot and bothered over your cooking and household problems when you can gel expert advice on them? Write, explaining your problem to Miss Lynn Chambers, Western Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines Street, Chi cago, Illinois. Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. A FLOUNCING skirt, fitted “long tor.vj” top and kimono sleeves are th-s leading features of the pretty pinafore frock for girls of fered in Pattern No. 1602-B. It buttons down the back—and at the shoulders and is as cool and com fortable to wear on a hot day as a romper suit would be. Run ric-rac edging around the edges of the kimono sleeves, the neckline and shoulders—and use fv. (V. (V. <\- pw. (V 0- ( v - O- O- O- O- O- C*~ O* O— O-- ? - mmmm ^ ? ? ASK MS ANOTHER ? 1 ? ? ? ? " WCU' NXW.r- ? o~ c^- rw* o- o™ r^- o- c^* o— o- o- c*- f'- I A General Quit: The Question* 1. In British slang, what is hneant by a limey? 2. The American bird, the chick adee, is also called what? 3. The island of New Guinea is sometimes called what? 4. How many lines has a poem called a triolet? 5. Which is the Panhandle state? 6. What country leads the world in amount of irrigated land? 7. Where is the original Bridge of Sighs? 8. Do heavyweight parachute jumpers use the same size para chutes as the lightweights? 9. In what year did Japan start its undeclared war on China? The Answers 1. A sailor or soldier. 2. Titmouse. 3. Papua. 4. Eight. 5. West Virginia. 6. India. 7. Venice. 8. Parachutes come in two standard sizes: a 24-foot chute goes to pilots weighing up to 180 pounds; a 28-footer to any flier over that. 9. 1937 (July 7). ric-rac in rows around the full, flaring skirt—the result will be a decorative frock which will call forth ohs and ahs from all who see it. There are panties to match, too—which may also be edged with ric-rac braid. * • • Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1602-B is de- signed for 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 dress and panties require 2*4 yards 35- inch material. 6 yards ric-rac. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1116 211 West Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size , Name Address Add a pinch of salt to your cream before whipping. • • • If tbe sewing machine needle will not penetrate heavy canvas, try rubbing the canvas where it is to be sewn with a piece of soap. * • * Maple toast is delicious with hot or cold tea. Mix shaved maple sugar with a little cinnamon and melted butter and spread on hot- toast. Reheat and serve. * • * Bafore working in the garden, put soap under and around your finger nails. You will find them much easier to clean. • • • To remove finger marks around a doorway, use a cloth dipped in kerosene and then wipe with a cloth wrung out of hot water. • • • When ironing puffed sleeves, fold the sleeve in halves, pulling apart as it sticks. In this way you can get down into the gathers at the top. Iron it dry and you will have a pretty puffed sleeve when it is done. One thing a soldier is afraid of is a display of emotion. That’s why his slang so often sounds de rogatory. For example, he refers to the silver eagles on his colonel’s shoulder straps as “buzzards.” But when he speaks of his favorite cigarette, he says: “Camels.” They’re first with men in the Army as well as with Sailors, Ma rines, and Coast Guardsmen. (Ac cording to actual sales records in service men’s stores.) A gift of a carton of Camels is always well received. Local tobacco dealers are featuring Camel cartons to send to any member of our armed forces. Hint for the day: Send “him” a carton of Camels.—Adv. Not So Easy Now Bilson—I’m sure glad to see you, Wilson. You don’t look a day older. And is your wife as pretty as she used to be? Wilson—Yes, but it takes her longer to get that way nowadays. Some men know better as they grow older. Others merely know more. Just That! She—You had no business to kiss me. He—That wasn’t business; that was a pleasure. Giveaway “No, my husband has hardly any of the minor vices.“ “Doesn’t he even smoke?” “Well, after a good dinner he may smoke a cigar, but that’s only about once in six weeks.” Lessening Grief Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others’ losses.— Wycherley. Double-Purpose Laxative Gives More Satisfaction Don’t be sr.tlsfled Just to relieve your >resent constipated condition. Meet problem more thoroughly by pres this — ——-——q—,, —— toning up your intestinal system. For this Double-Purpose, use Dr. Hitchcock’s' All-Vegetable Laxative Powder—an Intestinal Tonic Laxa tive. It not only acts gently and thoroughly, but tones lazy bowel muscles—giving more satisfaction. Dr. Hitchcock’s Laxative Powder helps relieve Dizzy Spells, Sour Stomach, Gas, Headache, and that dull sluggish feeling commonly re ferred to as Biliousness, when caused by Constipation. Use only as di rected. 15 doses for only 10c. Large family size 25c. Adv. Gat this quick retiaf. Lift* ■hoe pressure, soothes,, cushions the sensitive, ■pot. Costs but a trifle. D-Scholls Zino pads TO CHECK WHY PAY YOUR WAGES TO FLIES? USE F?. TANGLEFOOT ies are worse enemies than Japs. Japs drop bombs... flies eat dirt and then they come in and drop disease germs on the family’s food—and then you pay doctor bills, and lose time from work. WHY PAY YOUR WAGES to flies? STOP SUMMER SICKNESS before flies can start it! Use low-cost TANGLEFOOT Fly Paper all around the place. "Tanglefoot FlyPaper catches the Germ as well as the Fly." AT GROCERY, HARDWARE AND DRUG STORES ITS CAMELS WITH ME ON EVERY RUN.THEY HAVE THE MILDNESS THAT COUNTS AND FLAVOR. APLENTY! THERE'S NOTHING LIKE CAMELS FOR STEADY PLEASURE • Camel cigarettes are “standard equipment” with veteran engineer Frank Dooley (left, above) and hi. fireman. Bill Lyons, Jr, of New York CentraL IO «t*0r SMOKtRS of slow-burning CAMELS contains L *$S NICOTINE JL ^nfbnads^tid < f ,er J aTsest - ^ of -o te5ted-IeM than an. i t lnd fP en deot ^ 0/ smoke itself t